So after my amazing camp experience ending, me travelling around America and visiting Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., New York and different parts of Connecticut, I had reached the end of my journey and started my long (with emphasis on the LONG) journey back home. Touching back down in my beloved Melbourne, finally getting my bags [...]

So my whole entire summer camp experience is over – a really weird combination of relief and sadness and uncertainty. My final week with kids was quite a relaxed week where I got to show off all of the skills I have learned as a counsellor; building a fire, first aid, singing the ridiculous amount of [...]

Just quick update on some other, new found, things that I love about America:
1. American money – weird, green, paper, reminds me of Monopoly money. It comes in 1 cent (a penny), 5 cents (a nickel), 10 cents (a dime), 25 cents (a quarter), one dollar bills, and then 5, 10, 20 and 50. Usually [...]

Sorry about the delays in the blogs, my dedicated readers (aka my mum and dad . Camp life takes up all of your free time and I have had no time to write! So here is a quick update. A couple of weeks ago I switched from Camp Furnace Hills to Camp Small Valley. [...]

The following is a list I have compiled of places and things I have discovered and love about America
1. Walmart – this ridiculously large shop that has everything from groceries to clothes, electronics to toys and is crazy cheap has been an automatic pit stop whenever we have our nights/weekends off
2. Amish Country [...]

Here is a quick rundown of how camp works, both week wise and day wise, just so you all can have a general idea!
WEEKWISE
Sunday – kids check in, get taken to their units, dinner, opening campfire
Monday – activities all day long
Tuesday – activities, with special all camp activities at night, where all the campers join [...]

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